Every company needs an experienced general counsel.  Many small business owners under-estimate the value of having a trusted business attorney they can pick up the phone to call for advice, or to get input on a given issue.  Our clients often tell us things like they “used to think an attorney was just there if we got into some big contract issue, or a lawsuit,” or  “I never thought of you as my business coach before.”  The true value of having an experienced business attorney from the Watkins Firm at your side is like having a “game proven” professional coach who has been through almost every potential business challenge, opportunity, dispute and successful mergers and acquisitions here in San Diego and throughout California for more than four decades.

Even professional athletes need a coach to guide them, help to keep them focused and to improve their knowledge and understanding of the game.  Our clients value the cost-effectiveness of how we get to the root of an issue quickly, and share not only the legal perspective but the experiences of dozens of other business clients (many in your specific industry) who have successfully faced and overcome that specific challenge.

As your experienced general counsel, the Watkins Firm also helps to serve you as an advisor to expand and grow your business.  Whether this involves attracting and integrating new investors, or acquiring a competitor to expand your business our experienced legal counsel has guided hundreds of other businesses through those very steps.  That experience helps you to avoid potential problems, and to successfully complete objectives less expensively and in a faster timeframe.

Pro-Tip: “After almost 40 years of doing this and after thousands of different companies, a lawyer tends to know more about how to run a business than most people would expect. We go to college for seven years, but we learned our whole career from other people’s mistakes and other people’s successes. And so the three core things that I’ve come away with is if you’re going to have a business, you should have an experienced business attorney. You should have a banker (source of finances) and you should have a CPA. Most people are kind of clueless about what a CPA does, not just for taxes but for advising you on how to be profitable.

We have of course, very knowledgeable attorneys, but we also have a higher percentage of support staff, paralegals, administrators in house, HR people so that when our clients have a basic question about employment practices and they don’t want to spend the high attorney rate, they can contact one of our administrators or one of our paralegals and ask a question, and it will cost them a lot less money. And everybody here has been working on these cases for years and years. So the knowledge might not be at the fingertips of the employer, but we answer that same question every week.

We’ve had clients for decades. And when our clients do well, our attorneys feel like they’re doing well outside of whether they’re getting paid a whole bunch of money or not or fees or anything. We have long term clients. And our attorneys really feel good when things turn out for them because on the litigation side, they go through stress and we go through stress. And when we resolve a dispute and our clients are happy, we’re happy. And we’re helping to improve their transactions. Our clients have owned their company for years and years and years, and they want to sell it. They believe they have a good deal on the table and we want to do everything we can to make sure that goes smoothly. And our client gets all of their benefits of the bargain, everything they wanted. We want to do our best to make sure they get that. And if it happens and they’re happy, then we are very proud and we’re happy for them. So this combination of knowing someone for years and years, their highs and lows, their difficult times, their good times, you can imagine, you really feel a bond for your clients.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Are you ready to take your business to the next level?  Are you looking for an experienced general counsel and business coach with genuine experience and expertise who can help your company to grow and thrive?  We invite you to review our podcast Episode 10 – The Importance of a Strong Corporate Attorney as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.

.  You deserve a powerful coach.